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SOTT Focus: Rats, Public Defecation And Open Drug Use: West Coast Cities Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Rat and pizza
© ScreenShot Junkee
Almost everyone that goes out to visit one of our major cities on the west coast has a similar reaction. Those that must live among the escalating decay are often numb to it, but most of those that are just in town for a visit are absolutely shocked by all of the trash, human defecation, crime and public drug use that they encounter. Once upon a time, our beautiful western cities were the envy of the rest of the world, but now they serve as shining examples of America's accelerating decline. The worst parts of our major western cities literally look like post-apocalyptic wastelands, and the hordes of zombified homeless people that live in those areas are too drugged-out to care. The ironic thing is that these cities are not poor. In fact, San Francisco and Seattle are among the wealthiest cities in the entire nation. So if things are falling apart this dramatically now, how bad will things get when economic conditions really start to deteriorate?

Let's start our discussion by looking at the rat epidemic in Los Angeles. Thanks to extremely poor public sanitation, rats are breeding like mad, and at this point they have even conquered Los Angeles City Hall, from The Daily Mail:
Officials at Los Angeles' City Hall are considering ripping all of the building's carpets up, as rats and fleas are said to be running riot in its halls.

A motion was filed by Council President Herb Wesson on Wednesday to enact the much needed makeover amid a typhus outbreak in the downtown area.

Wesson said a city employee had contracted the deadly bacterial disease at work, and now he's urging officials to investigate the 'scope' of the long-running pest problem at the council building.

Comment: Dare we suggest the West Coast's open-door policy has been a factor in generating these dire circumstances? And systemic inequality from not taxing the ultra-wealthy?

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Paris: Acid attack at Bastille metro station leaves one person injured

Tom Barnes
The Independent
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:51 UTC
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© GettyPolice said a man was seriously injured during a suspected acid attack at the Bastille metro station in Paris.
Police in Paris say one person has been seriously injured after being burned during a suspected acid attack on the city's subway.

The victim, identified in French media as a 20-year-old homeless man, was said to have been sprayed with an unknown substance during a confrontation at Bastille station on Friday morning.

He is being treated for major burns to the face and hands after being removed from the station by emergency services and rushed to hospital.

Reports suggested a fight had broken out at the station between the victim and an "aggressor" at around 6.30am

"A rag soaked with a liquid that could be acid was found" at the scene of the incident, a police source told Le Parisien.
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Jogger who killed mountain lion with his bare hands tells his tale

Doha Madani
NBC News
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:37 UTC
Travis Kauffman
Travis Kauffman
A Colorado man who fought off a mountain lion with his bare hands has come forward to describe what happened when the animal attacked him on a trail earlier this month.

Travis Kauffman, 31, said he was running on a scenic trail in the Fort Collins area on the afternoon of Feb. 4, when he heard a rustling of pine needles.

He turned his head to see a small mountain lion about 10 feet away from him, Kauffman recounted at a press conference Thursday.


Comment: Mountain lion attacks jogger near Fort Collins, Colorado


His immediate response was to put his hands up and scream in an attempt to scare off the lion, but the animal lunged at his face. As Kauffman tried to protect his face, the lion latched onto his left wrist and began clawing at him.

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A string of hoax bomb threats force multiple evacuations in Moscow


RFE/RL
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:14 UTC
Moscow evacuation
People are evacuated from the building of the Agriculture Ministry following an anonymous bomb threat in Moscow on February 5.
A spate of anonymous bomb threats to institutions in Moscow has led to several evacuations, although no explosives have been found, Russian authorities say.

The state TASS news agency quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying e-mailed threats late on February 14 and early the next day prompted the evacuation of some 5,000 people from at least 10 institutions, including the Russkoye Radio broadcaster, two major railway stations, and two remand prisons.

The evacuations were canceled after the buildings were searched and no explosives found.

Anonymous bomb threats have become a particular problem in Russia in recent years. On February 5, dozens of buildings in Moscow and the surrounding region, including the seat of the Moscow regon's government, were evacuated following threats that turned out to be hoaxes.
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Missouri deputies caught putting mud on surveillance camera to block view

Russell Kinsaul
KMOV 4
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:04 UTC
mud camera
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department launched an internal affairs investigation after an Imperial resident filed a complaint about the actions of three deputies, which were recorded on a home security system.

Ashley Mathis first noticed something unusual Sunday night.

"I was getting ready for bed, we'd been gone all day. And I looked over at the monitor, because it sits on the desk in our bedroom and noticed that camera 1 is black," said Mathis.

Mathis and her fiancé, Gary Schuetz, backed up the video for camera 1 and saw three deputies walked into their yard earlier in the day while the couple was gone. Then the video shows one of the deputies reaching up and putting something on the lens, blocking its view. The security camera turned out to have mud on the lens.

"I want to know what they were here for," said Schuetz.

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Best of the Web: Yellow Vest spokesman hints at next stage: 'Paramilitaries are ready to overthrow the government'


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:29 UTC
Christophe Chalençon
Unofficial Yellow Vest spokesman Christophe Chalençon
The so-called Yellow Vest protests have been raging across France since mid-November, with the movement calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron over his government's policies.

The official Twitter account of an Italian political show, Piazzapulita, released a video of an interview with a man they claim is Christophe Chalençon, one of the leaders of the yellow vests movement.

While the footage, apparently filmed on a hidden camera, shows only the legs of a man, he can be heard speaking about the ongoing unrest in France.

The man, who is alleged to be Chalençon, is heard saying that if anything happens to him, French President Emmanuel Macron would end up on the guillotine.

Comment: Correction: ...which are rapidly turned violent by the police, on Macron's orders. And no, the demonstrators are not "no longer reflecting the group's early demands." The demonstrators are 'the group', which are supported by an overwhelming majority of French people, this crooked poll notwithstanding. France really is that close to a reckoning, and the Italian government is wise to prepare for it.

Assuming that that is Chalençon making those statements, then he is by no means the first to voice similar. Macron's palace guard have had a helicopter on stand-by to airlift him out of the Elysée if necessary! Hundreds of former and current police and military personnel have posted videos online since early December 2018 discussing armed intervention of some kind or another. A dozen retired generals published a letter late last year demanding that Macron get control of the situation, or else...

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How Israel's extremist rabbis are fuelling a holy war in Israel

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:26 UTC
rabbis
© AFPA Jewish man walks past a stall selling portraits of rabbis in the Israeli town of Netivot in 2016
In which country did a senior, state-salaried cleric urge his followers last week to become "warriors", emulating a group of young men who had murdered a woman of another faith?

The cleric did so with impunity. In fact, he was only echoing other highly placed colleagues who have endorsed a book - again without penalty - urging their disciples to murder babies belonging to other religions.

Where can the head of the clergy call black people "monkeys" and urge the expulsion of other religious communities?

Where does a clerical elite wield so much power that they alone decide who can marry or get divorced - and are backed by a law that can jail someone who tries to wed without their approval? They can even shut down the national railway system without notice.

Where are these holy men so feared that women are scrubbed from billboards, college campuses introduce gender segregation to appease them, and women find themselves literally pushed to the back of the bus?

Is the country Saudi Arabia? Or Myanmar? Or perhaps, Iran?

No. It is Israel, the world's only self-declared Jewish state.

Comment: 'Shared values', indeed. The worldview of the extremist rabbis has more in common with Salafi-Jihadism. But good luck getting anyone in the west to admit it, let alone even comment on it. It's one of Israel's best kept secrets.

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Book 2

The new censorship: Amazon under fire for selling 'gay cure' books


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:40 UTC
LGBT flag
LGBTQ advocates are incensed following revelations this week that multinational e-commerce giant Amazon is selling gay conversion therapy books, "promoting hatred, abuse, and self-harm," in the process.

Award-winning author and LGBTQ rights activist Damian Barr raised the issue online, accusing Amazon of taking sides by allowing people to profit by pushing harmful, pseudoscientific 'treatments.'


Comment: If they were truly taking sides, they wouldn't be selling pro-LGBT books, which they are, in spades.


Among the contentious titles available on Amazon's website are 'A Parent's Guide To Preventing Homosexuality,' 'Healing Homosexuality, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality,' and 'How a Gay Boy Became a Straight Man.'


Comment: People like Barr and the twitter commentariat don't seem to realize how books work, or intellectual history for that matter. They just reveal themselves as the totalitarians they are. Do they realize how many countless books have been written over the centuries with which they would undoubtedly disagree? Obviously not, or they would realize how ridiculous their position is. But that's how book-burnings start.

No worry, though, because Amazon is actually no better. They regularly ban books for political reasons, e.g., Alex Krainer's Grand Deception.

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'Symbol of oppression': Swedish swimming chief steps down after criticizing Muslim headscarf


RT
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:28 UTC
Hijabs
© REUTERS/Andrew KellyHijabs for sale sit on mannequin heads
The head of Swedish Swimming Federation Ulla Gustavsson has been dismissed from the role after taking a swipe at the traditional Muslim headscarf, calling it a "symbol of oppression, child marriage and genital mutilation."

Gustavsson's criticism of the headwear was prompted by a local ad that showed a boy and a Muslim girl participating in shooting competitions.

The boy was dressed in a white T-shirt and blue jeans, and was next to a girl who was wearing a hijab. Both were holding air guns in their hands. The advert provoked a bitter reaction from Gustavsson, who considered it inappropriate for Swedish society.

The ad, which was aimed at promoting an inclusive environment in Swedish sport, was lambasted by the swimming chairwoman. She said that the air gun in conjunction with the headdress reflected the wrong values, which went against gender equality.
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FBI opens inquiry into Ryan Adams' relationship with 14yo fan after N.Y. Times exposé

Katie Kilkenny
The Hollywood Reporter
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:13 UTC
Ryan Adams
© Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicRyan Adams
One day after the New York Times published a bombshell exposé of Ryan Adams alleging he had exchanged explicit messages with a minor, the FBI has opened an inquiry into the singer-songwriter's communications with the younger fan, theTimes reported Thursday.

FBI agents from the Crime Against Children Squad in the bureau's New York office began the steps of opening a criminal investigation on Thursday, the newspaper reported. Those steps include interviewing the woman that the Times reported on, who is no longer a minor, and gathering evidence of the correspondence. If corroborating evidence is found to substantiate the Times' original account, the agents could take further steps to gather evidence, including subpoenaing phone records.

Adams has not been contacted by any member of a law enforcement agency, including the FBI, Adams' lawyer, Andrew Brettler, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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